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Experimental Music: Composition with an Electronic Computer

Author: Lejaren A. Hiller, Leonard M. Isaacson
Year: 1959
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Source: https://archive.org/details/experimentalmusi00hill
Subject: Lejaren Hiller
Tags: computer-music · algorithmic-composition · illiac · digital-scan

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Hiller and Isaacson's 1959 landmark — the first book on algorithmic composition, documenting the ILLIAC Suite for string quartet (1957), the earliest substantial score composed by a computer, generated on the University of Illinois's ILLIAC I. Foundational to computer music. Full digital reading copy via the Internet Archive.